FPL steps down: what's the real story?

[Rahul Sundaram]

On 04/02/2010 04:36 AM, Chris Adams wrote:
> Once upon a time, Sam Sharpe <lists.redhat at samsharpe.net> said:
>   
>> I believe that diverting resources into maintaining older releases
>> does not further any of the Foundations. It takes resources away from
>> further the last two principles.
>>     
> I would say that pushing major updates to older releases takes more
> resources, not less (at least if it is done correctly, with proper
> testing on each release).
>   

This really depends on the nature of the package and what problems the
update solves.   I generally prefer not pushing in "major" updates but I
elected to do so for Transmission bittorrent client because magnet link
support was in high demand (TPB switched to using it) and it fixed quite
a number of important bugs that were being reported via ABRT, not to
mention security and data loss issues.  The other option would have been
selective backporting which would have certainly been much more work and
upstream projects don't necessarily support that approach.

The right answer is - it depends.

Rahul